The winners: Lintel and Wintel

The Meta Group reckons that Linux's appeal is "more emotional than realistic", according to analyst Kevin McIsaac. The Computerworld article says: He predicts that by 2007, Linux and Windows on Intel (Lintel and Wintel) will be the dominant platform for the application server tier, leaving RISC/Unix vendors competing with IBM mainframes in the high-end database server tier. "The success of Linux will come primarily at the expense of Unix." This is the first time I've noticed the "Lintel and Wintel" phrase, but it could catch on....